What about groupies? It’s hard to dig up a bad review of Bridgers’ work, even if you try to for ‘journalism’ purposes. CHAI featuring Mndsgn & Mndsgn - IN PINK 9. We sat in the balcony for JAB’s set, a mesmerizing flute-driven composition complemented with a nature walk through an airy forest. He has released 17 albums, as well as three studio albums as a former member of rock/alt-country band Whiskeytown.. Punisher seems crafted specifically for aimless strolls through empty neighbourhoods where everything is closed and everyone is in hiding. “I literally just go (to drugstores) for fun. And I guess even if she were busy and even if they were bothering her, she’d be sweet, because she is. I always look at the holiday section so I often buy some sort of stupid Halloween thing… I love just driving somewhere. / It’s for the best / I can’t open my mouth and forget how to talk / ’cos even if I could, wouldn’t know where to start / wouldn’t know when to stop”. The latest merch she dropped features a cop car on fire. All direct purchases through the Caldo Verde website will receive a FREE, limited 4 song Sun Kil Moon EP entitled I’ll Be There. And when speaking of Lennon specifically, well, one of Bridgers’ lyrics goes, “And we fought about John Lennon / Until I cried.”. “But I think my favourite thing is just that it’s reaching people who are isolated.” Even pre-pandemic, Bridgers was well-versed in end-of-the-world scenarios. CLAUD Super Monster [Saddest Factory] £9.99 FIRST SIGNING TO PHOEBE BRIDGERS’ LABEL! You can’t run from the truth, so you may as well make it cute. But if someone confronts me with something, I’m like, ‘Sure!’ I’m my own worst enemy. Poetic flukes, which may be interpreted as incredibly important or totally irrelevant, depending on your mood and astrological sign, fuel her songs. KARAAGE 10. “The drugstores are open all night / The only reason I moved to the east side,” Bridgers sings on the title track of the new album, an ode to Elliott Smith. She’s got one foot in a pair of vintage jeans, the other in resort 2021 Vetements (metaphorically, of course: she mostly wears black, or the skeleton pyjamas, or wedding dresses). Bridgers brings the skeleton out of the closet and makes it work. “Depression and anxiety are constantly at war with each other. Dolls Kill went on to make a less than acceptable apology, which wasn’t received well as brands began to cut ties. Once a pastime for “dirtbags”, she notes that “record shopping (has become) elitist. Bridgers started a record label, Saddest Factory (say it out loud). 1. By age 20, she'd caught the ear of Ryan Adams, who listened to her perform her song "Killer" and invited her to record it in his studio the next day. Salty Since breaking out in 2018, CHAI … I remember a time of having to make a pilgrimage to cop an album which represented my status, or shoplift it if my parents didn’t approve. “I went to Twitter jail yesterday, because I told a Trump supporter I wished he was dead” – Phoebe Bridgers, Being a Bridgers fan is a sort of cult, in the sense that nobody dabbles: you’re either in or you’re out. years at farmers markets in her native Los Angeles. Punisher 5. She worried at first that the label she’s signed, to, Dead Oceans, wouldn’t be down with it, but it turned out they were super-down. They aren’t punishers – they ask her if she’s busy and if they are bothering her. However, we feel confident we ordered plenty of white vinyl to accomodate all orders. Why am I afraid of that?”. She produces art the old-fashioned way, while keeping her finger on the pulse of social media and any trend featured in the pages of this magazine. Punisher is named after the type of fan who ‘punishes’ their idol with attention. Are they having a personal conversation with friends, are they talking on the phone, are you scaring them? Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Los Angeles, California, Phoebe Bridgers wrote her first song at age 11, spent her adolescence at open mic nights, and busked through her teenage You can pre-order a copy of our latest issue here, I meet Phoebe Bridgers on John Lennon’s birthday. by Phoebe Bridgers “It’s easier to blow something off in an email. I Know The End The front of the shirt reads, “I feel nothing”. “I’ve told a lot of my friends who were thinking about signing to Dead Oceans to sign with them. If I had Bridgers’ gifts, I would write a song about the irony of getting to meet her, only to watch her talk from behind a black surgical mask. On tour you kind of have to do that mentally, (but) deviating from it, there are valuable things about that. All these guys are horrible. Chinese Satellite 7. Bridgers’ second studio solo album, Punisher, was destined to be a hit. Like the Sex Pistols, for example (she points to the Sex Pistols shirt that I’m wearing to the interview) – their politics were fucked, Johnny Rotten likes Trump now. If We Make It Through December. Donuts Mind If I Do 2. Are they relevant? Spillers Records New Release List 12.2.21 <